With the purpose of inspiring and involving the local community, Ses12naus launched a series of open studio days and invited art enthusiasts and curious minds to experience first-hand the creative process of Andrés Izquierdo. In the context of his residency on Ibiza, these activities fostered a unique connection between the public, the artist and his practice, to stimulate participation and learning through art.

Upon opening the doors of his studio, Izquierdo invited attendees to witness the evolution of his artistic project in dialogue with the island, offering a vision of the fusion of fictions, myths, and metaphysical questions that pervade his very personal works.

July 13 and 14, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

La Carpintería. Riu Arno 58 (Can Bufi)

 

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OPEN STUDIO

Andrés Izquierdo (Madrid 1993) presents a new sculptural ensemble produced mostly in earthy and argillaceous compounds, using this materiality to speak of the substrate as a transitional place and as a life generator of a cyclical nature.
The sculptures produced by Izquierdo interact with walls and pedestals in the same way that organisms do with the substrate: emerging or being ejected to the surface. Alluding to the earth as an entity that begins by spitting us out and ends up swallowing us, Izquierdo works with shells, flowers or archaeological artifacts such as the two reproductions of Punic coins acquired in the store of the Puig Des Molins Ethnographic Museum.
This body of work displays a space of transformation and transit: a wall that wants to be a moon, the metamorphosis of a person into a snail, the passage from day to night, or the hybrid nature of Icarus.
This portrayal of that which transforms constitutes the intention of infusing the sculptures with an energy or a potentiality.
In addition to the use of the lyrical as a strategy to imprint energy in the objects, Izquierdo employs attributes related to infinite and expansion found in figures such as the spiral and the vortex or in the stellated space that we can find represented on the internal surface of the eye, in the disc of the withered daisy or over Icarus’ body.